It makes for a rather involved reading, as Mr. Muehlhauser goes to some pains to explain his ideas in great detail. It also has just begun to delve into the Singularity analysis itself, the first few posts having been dedicated to laying the groundwork for the explanations he intends to put forth.

The views expressed in it are rather grim, as far as mankind’s future go, but the points are really well researched and make for a blog well worth reading.

I’ve been delving quite a bit into the area of Machine Learning lately and the idea described in this article struck me as something that is quite obvious in hindsight (but then what isn’t?)

I found it especially interesting that this is an idea for improving the human species’ capacity for learning which can trivially work today, without any fancy bio engineering or brain augmenting of any kind.

Now granted, this would not make us super-smart and able to deal with new problems all of a sudden, but I do wonder, if we rise the average knowledge of the population in a significant way, wouldn’t that, in itself, pave the way for faster evolution?

We’ve actually thought about this at OneOverZero, but we framed the discussion as pertaining to Individual Entity Rights, not “human rights”. We even got so far as to create a Charter for the Rights of Asylum for Turing capable digital entities. I think it is easy to see where our opinion would lie in this poll.

The interviews cover a wide range of topics and are generally very interesting with insights into specific areas that are dealing with ethics issues right now, or are preparing to deal with them in the foreseeable future.

Beware, though, this is not exactly light reading.

Once again the lobsters, singularitarians, tech-heads, geeks (and the just plain curious) are summoned to discuss, basically, the meaning of 42.

Come meet us after work on Thursday, May 12th, at Hennessy’s for a few beers, chips and light-hearted discussions about our collective future, the way we’ll get there, and how in the post-scarcity future there will be no need for financial bail outs.

In keeping with our ongoing attempts at tackling the issues that are a-coming with the singularity (which is about to unleash any day now, you just wait and see), we are going to convene again this coming Saturday.

Hopefully, this time there will be no genetically evolved virtual car distractions and we will nail the whole trans-human bit down once and for all.

Failing that, there will be beer.

Come meet us at Hennessy’s Saturday evening (at around 19h00) for a good discussion about oh… Life, the Universe and Everything ™.

Once again we’ve been too long without contemplating the inevitable coming of our robotic overlords. Or without having a few beers together.

This cannot be!

So to right this wrong we’ll convene again next week on Thursday, February 24th, from 18h30 onwards, at O’Gilins, near Cais do Sodré.

Come one, come all, this is the return to a well loved spot and to deep conversations about life and the future of humanity. Also, have I mentioned there will be beer?

For too long we’ve been without beer discussing the future. Life, tech and everything awaits all on the next meeting of the oneoverzero crowd.

Come meet us at Mar Adentro (Rua do Alecrim, 35, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe, Earth, you-figure-out-the-rest), from 18h00 on, on July the 2nd and get your fill of the future of humanity. Also, there’s beer and other assorted creativity enhancers.

Meet you all there!